Old Dominion University’s Hispanic Heritage Month Keynote Speaker. Title of Keynote Address: The Sound of Citizenship: Latinas/os, language and media. September 18, 2014

Guest Speaker at the President’s Obama Young African Leaders Initiative, Charlottesville, VA, June 20, 2014. Title of the talk: “Language, Culture, and the Media: Advocacy and Mobilization in Multilingual and Multicultural Societies.”

Guest Speaker at the conference “Race in the Americas: Rethinking Comparative Analysis” organized by Claremont Graduate University, April 18-19, 2014. Title of the talk: “Ethno-territoriality: Aural Maps and the Cipher of Race”

Guest Speaker at the Center for African and Black Diaspora, at DePaul University. November 6, 2013. Title of the Talk: “Coalitional Politics and Immigration Reform: Media and the Nativist Paradigm”.

Guest Speaker at the UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center. October 10, 2013. Title of the Talk: “Citizenship Excess: Latinos/as, Media, and Nation”

Guest Speaker of the Chicano Studies Center and of the Graduate Program in Visual Studies at University of California-Irvine: October 8, 2013. Title of the Talk: “Latinas/os in the Crosshairs: Media and the Politics of Nativism”

Guest Speaker at Gonzaga University. September 25, 2013. Title of the Talk: “Immigration Enforcement, Reform, and the Media”

Workshop at the Center for Teaching and Advising, Gonzaga University. September 25, 2013. Title of the Workshop: “A Bridge of One: Using Our Identities for Pedagogic Inclusiveness”

Guest Speaker at the School of Communication and Media, Temple University. March 25, 2013. Title of the Talk: “Citizenship Excess: Latinos/as, Media, and Nation

Speaker at the Virginia Festival of the Book, March 22, 2013. Title of the Talk: “Screening Cuba.” Panel: Re-Examining Cuba

Guest Speaker at the Latin@ / Latin American Media Today: A Discussion on New Global/Local Circulations, Publics and Politics. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, February 16, 2012. Paper presented: “Transnational Political Economy of Media and Mexican Violence.”

Guest Speaker at the Orders and Borders symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, December 2, 2010. Paper presented: “The Pastoral Power of Language Policy: Spanish language Media, Commodification, and Nativist Liberalism.”

Guest Speaker at the Principles of Community Speaker Series, Virginia Tech, October 11, 2010. Paper presented: “Latinos in the Media: Issues of Pedagogy.”

Guest Speaker at the symposium Rethinking Nation-State and Transnationalism in the Age of Terror, University of Texas at Austin, September 16, 2005. Paper presented: “Teaching on Nationalism and Latinidad.”

Public Lecture presented at the Martin Luther King week at Southwestern University, January 18, 2005. Paper presented: “Letters from Birmingham.”

“Coloniality in Television Studies: The Latin American Mark in the U.S.-Mexico Mediated Landscape,” presented at the International Communication Association (ICA), Seattle, WA. May 22 2014

“ICED: Video Games and the fight between the Human and the Citizen,” presented at Preconference at the International Communication Association (ICA), Seattle, WA. May 22 2014

“’Narcocorridos, Transnationalism, and the Branding of Authenticity” presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS 2014), Seattle, WA. March 23, 2013. Refereed

“The Risk of Liberalism: Similarities and Tensions between DREAMer and Nativist Discourse,” presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) 2013 Conference, Washington, DC, November 23.

“Beyond bling: television, violence, and the narco-imaginary,” presented at the American Studies Association (ASA) 2013 Conference, Washington, DC, November 24.“’El Movimiento Alterado’ and a New Aesthetics of Violence in Mexico” presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS 2012), Boston, MA, March 22, 2012. Refereed

“Ugly Diversity or How We Learned to Ditch Racial Justice for Consumption: Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-2010) in the Age of Neoliberal Citizenship,” Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 2011 Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 12. Refereed

Panel Respondent and Chair for “Media Racialization and the Political Economy of Latinidad,” at the National Communication Association (NCA) 2009 Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 14

Invited participant in round table titled “Studying War and Peace through American Studying,” American Studies Association (ASA) 2009 Conference, Washington DC, November 7

“Hutto: Staging Transnational Justice Claims and Alternative Media”, presented at the Media, Democracy, and Diversity Conference, University of Virginia, April 2, 2010. Non-refereed

“Mapping Television to the Nation: Spanish-Language Television Marginalization and Linguistic Rights”, presented at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS 2010), Los Angeles, CA, March 18, 2010. Refereed